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Thomas Barker letter to Thomas Rotch, New York, 5 mo 28 1810

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A-51-1
New York 5 mo 28 1810
Jacob Dohrman & Co
Esteemed Friends
I am very anxious to procure
some merino Sheep several of the first quality have late
=ly attived in the United States from your port nine of
which came here in the Ship Maria Therisa Captain
Dickinson. They cost about 25 or 30 dollars a peice and
a peice
paid about 8 Dolls ^ freight on those terms I should be
glad to get a thousand & hereby authorise you to
procure them & ship them by any vessel or Vessels
bound to the United States from time to time as you
may be able to procure them on those terms, if they cannot
be got at that you may ship me 500 @ 50$ a piece or
100 at $100 a piece or 50 at $2000 a piece and rather
than not have any I wish you to go as high as $500
a piece for 4 ewes & 2 Rams provided you can get them
of the first quality and of a moderate age, & commence
your purchases on receipt of this letter & do not let any
opportunity escape that may offer before you secure a
part of the number ordered as I wish them purchased at
once & as fast as you purchase them ship them
for any part of the U States, promise the Captain's suit
=able gratuities if they deliver them alive & in good order
and consider this order in force untill executed altho
it should be for years, If you purchase at high prices
& they should afterwards offer within my lower limits you
may go on purchasing the same as if the first purchases
for
had been made at such reduced prices, & ^ your reimbersements
draw on me or Thomas R Hazard & Co Liverpool, it is
all important to get the real Merino as a common Sheep
would not be worth 5$ a piece when they arrive here you

A-51-1
New York 5 mo 28 1810
Jacob Dohrman & Co
Esteemed Friends
I am very anxious to procure
some merino Sheep several of the first quality have late
=ly attived in the United States from your port nine of
which came here in the Ship Maria Therisa Captain
Dickinson. They cost about 25 or 30 dollars a peice and
a peice
paid about 8 Dolls ^ freight on those terms I should be
glad to get a thousand & hereby authorise you to
procure them & ship them by any vessel or Vessels
bound to the United States from time to time as you
may be able to procure them on those terms, if they cannot
be got at that you may ship me 500 @ 50$ a piece or
100 at $100 a piece or 50 at $2000 a piece and rather
than not have any I wish you to go as high as $500
a piece for 4 ewes & 2 Rams provided you can get them
of the first quality and of a moderate age, & commence
your purchases on receipt of this letter & do not let any
opportunity escape that may offer before you secure a
part of the number ordered as I wish them purchased at
once & as fast as you purchase them ship them
for any part of the U States, promise the Captain's suit
=able gratuities if they deliver them alive & in good order
and consider this order in force untill executed altho
it should be for years, If you purchase at high prices
& they should afterwards offer within my lower limits you
may go on purchasing the same as if the first purchases
for
had been made at such reduced prices, & ^ your reimbersements
draw on me or Thomas R Hazard & Co Liverpool, it is
all important to get the real Merino as a common Sheep
would not be worth 5$ a piece when they arrive here you